Aether Mug
Aether Mug
Marco Giancotti
Hello! I write on Aether Mug, a weekly blog about a great number of things, like science, philosophy, design, psychology, and Japan—or rather, not about *any* of them in particular, but about the things that connect them all.
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Disclaimer: these are little more than reading notes. I'll list some excerpts and highlights from a paper I've loved reading recently, with only marginal explanations. Rougher than usual, but this shortcut allows me to share things I...
You're looking for the Place. Not a special place, or an important place. The right place for yourself. A place that means nothing to anyone else, but that completely fills the nooks and crannies of your being and lets you hold on to the...
A part of me still hasn't recovered from learning that some people believe there is no such thing as an untranslatable word. I've written about why I disagree before, but that explanation didn't satisfy me completely. There was a...
None of it is important or all of it is
How programmers' struggles are everyone's mental struggles
A stolen attempt
The eyeball'll never seethe color of its iris.The hand will never scratch its back.The skull will never kiss its nape.The clock will never measureits keeping of true time.Unless, that is, they get external help.But what aboutthe living...
Six assorted examples
I asked a counterfeit person about it
On quaint devices for time-travel
Today, even a lazy after-thought can become a useful project
Should we anthropomorphize LLMs?
A quick reference
Somehow, though, I can still read it